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Lustre Administration and Support Level 1 (ES-288)

Course ID : ES-288 Duration : days

The Lustre Administration and Support Level 1 course is intended for system administrators, architects, and integrators who are interested in deploying Lustre installations and/or performing configuration management. This 3-day class covers theory, best practices, and demonstrations focused on deployment of services and project management procedures. All aspects of configuration, from very simple test clusters to very complex installations featuring failover and multiple networks, will be reviewed.



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Who Can Benefit

Students who can benefit from this course include system administrations, architects, and integrators.

Prerequisites

To succeed fully in this course, students should have some familiarity with Linux.:

Skills Gained

  • Describe the Lustre environment
  • Understand and illustrate the Lustre cluster architecture
  • Perform installation and initial configuration activities
  • Troubleshoot and resolve typical operational issues
  • Explain and perform advanced profiling activities

Course Content

Module 1.0 - Introduction

  • Course organization
  • Handouts
  • Exam
  • Introductions
  • Rules

Module 1.1 - Understanding Lustre

  • What is Lustre?
  • Systems in a Lustre cluster
  • Lustre features
  • Networking options
  • Modules
  • Where are the files?
  • Striping
  • File I/O protocol

Module 1.2 - Architecting Lustre Clusters

  • Understanding requirements
  • Server hardware
  • Node count and size
  • Networking
  • Storage and throughput

Module 2.1 - Configuring Lustre 1.6

  • Releases and features
  • Principles
  • Examples
  • Failover
  • Management

Module 2.2 - Configuring Lustre 1.4

  • Installing and compiling
  • Configuration
  • Starting / stopping clients, services
  • Changing configurations

Module 3.1 - Troubleshooting

  • Methodology
  • General actions
  • Generating debug information
  • Stuck modules
  • Network troubleshooting
  • Dealing with full OSTs
  • Failed OSTs
  • Recovery
  • Storage failures
  • Working at scale
  • Understanding error messages

Module 3.2 - Advanced Profiling

  • Tools and statistics
  • I/O performance - fragmentation
  • I/O performance - I/O kit
  • I/O tunables
  • Understanding metadata performance
  • Metadata tuning